My hours trapped on a cancelled flight with my baby

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A passenger takes a nap while caught amid flight delays at HeathrowMax Nash/i-Images

Sadie Gray

Published at 12:01AM, January 21 2013

Anushka Asthana’s flight to Delhi was going to be harrowing enough even before a few centimetres of snow threw Heathrow into chaos.

Flying for the first time with her baby son, she intended to meet her parents at Heathrow so they could travel together to the Hindu holy place of Haridwar on the Ganges. There they would scatter the ashes of her “bright, talented” brother Anshu, who died two months ago of pneumonia, aged 37.

However, a cancelled connection flight meant that her parents had to fly direct to India, while Anushka and four-month-old Ethan, after spending hours cooped up

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